Herbal Medicine as an Alternative Medicine for Treating Diabetes: The Global Burden

Call for Papers

Diabetes mellitus being a major global health problem has to be dealt firmly. It is a multifactorial disease causing several complications such as retinopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy, cardiovascular diseases, and so forth. Hence, it demands a multiple therapeutic approach at low cost with lesser toxicity and minimal side effects. Recently, efforts are being made to discover novel herbal antidiabetic agents as an alternative to the synthetic agents.

Major hindrance in amalgamation of herbal medicine in modern medical practices is lack of scientific and clinical data proving their efficacy and safety. There is a need for conducting clinical research in herbal drugs and developing simple bioassays for biological standardization and pharmacological and toxicological evaluation. It is also important to establish the active component/s from these plant extracts.

We invite authors to submit original research as well as review articles that add value to the existing knowledge of traditional system of medicine by highlighting the importance of herbal medicines in the cure of diabetes, emerging as a major health problem. We are particularly interested in articles that explore the efficacy of herbs in managing diabetes and the complications associated with it. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: